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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the place was established, the quantity and priceof goods found their proper level. Twenty-five cents a pound for haywas a common price when it was carried over the pass, but the rail-road reduced it atonce to three, andeven less. Theillustration alsofurnishes a goodview. of RainbowFalls. Another says ofUte Pass: Theoftener one goesthrough this pass,the grander itseems. There arein it no mere sem-blances, no delu-sions of atmos-pheric effect. Itis as severely,sternly real as-Gibraltar. Sun-light cannot soft-en it nor stormsmake it morefrowning. High,rocky, inaccessi-ble, its walls towerand wind and seemat every turn toclose rather thanto open the paththrough which the merry little stream comes leaping, foamingdown. . . . For a short distance the road is narrow and perilous — on stripsof ledges between two precipices, or on stony rims of the crowdedbrook, which it crosses and recrosses twenty-four times in less than,three miles. Then the Pass widens, the rocky walls sink gradually,.
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On the Line of D. & R. G. Railway. MANITOU AND PIKES PEAK. MARVELS OF NATURE. 2$ round and expand into lovely hills — hill after hill bearing more andmore off to the right and more and more off to the left — until thereis room for bits of meadow along the brook and for groves and grassyintervals where the hills join; room and at the same time shelter,for the hills are still high. . . . We came out at sunset on a ridge from which we could look downinto a meadow. The ridge sloped down to the meadow through agateway made by two huge masses of rocks. All alone in the smoothgrassy forest they loomed up in the dim light, stately and straight ascolossal monoliths, though they were in reality composed of roundedbowlders piled one above another. Pikes Peak was named in honor of Gen. L. M. Pike, who discov-ered it in 1806. The ascent is wearisome and somewhat perilous,passing, as the trail does, over rugged hills and the precipitous wallsof narrow canons. The ascent is made from Manitou

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